In "Ballerina," Ana de Armas plays a graceful avenger

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Ballerina is the new installment in the John Wick saga, born in 2014 , and already rich in four parts. The eponymous hero of this film series died at the end of the fourth . It is therefore a new character who moves in the singular universe created by the screenwriter Derek Kolstad and the director Shad Stahelski. This does not prevent the original hero, played by Keanu Reeves , from making a turn in the film, the time of a few spectacular sequences. The action of the film therefore takes place in a period preceding his death. You have to follow.

This new avatar features a young close protection expert, recruited as a child by a secret organization that trained her in the handling of weapons. As an adult, she attempts to find the man who killed her father. He's the leader of an occult sect, which kidnaps young girls to turn them into formidable henchmen. Gabriel Byrne plays the villain, with a sort of tired conviction. The film thus gives Ana de Armas the opportunity to shine in a playful series of baroque and stylized action scenes, the main qualities of a film that proceeds more by accumulating strong moments rather than relying on a logical sequence.

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